Street Festival/PCM-D50 acid test...

[joelpatterson]

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Thar she blows... your reporter walking around the windy city streets on a Friday afternoon... this very afternoon!

[bcgood]

Joel: "2 bucks! Even Allen couldn't make money selling them for that much."

Dan: "That's right, that's right, that's right."

LOL

Sounds cool Joel, I wonder if maybe in a few months I'll be able to buy one of these recorders from Dan for a whole carton of cigarettes?

[joelpatterson]

It's amazing the improv comedy you can stumble onto....

[Remoteness]

Man, that's some funny stuff my man!

By the way, the rig sounds pretty decent.

[Fuzzy Logic]

dan sounded worried when he saw your mic...

hey are you a cop?

[joelpatterson]

Well, he OBVIOUSLY was fencing some stolen coffee...

[brle]

Too bad that you didn´t take a video camera with you .
Funny stuff, nice vibe!

Sascha

[Remoteness]

What kind of mic were you using; it sounded very nice.

[joelpatterson]

Originally Posted by Remoteness

What kind of mic were you using; it sounded very nice.

See, that's the absolutely miraculous part about it-- it was just the tiny little mics on the machine!

Little electret condensers, from what I can tell. You can spin them 90 degrees XY, and there are detents splayed out at 120, but I edged each one in a little bit to get an ORTFish 110 or so. Coincidentally (?) when they are set just so, they are in a maximum "protection zone" of the bumper grille that protects you from accidentally grazing a cinderblock wall and snapping them off.

I made up a little wind shield, too, out of fake fur and a hairtie and fastened it over the grille-- you would never survive without it, even carrying the thing across the room unprotected gives you a deafening, s-t-u-t-t-e-r-y WHOOOOOSH of wind noise. That shield has a little bit of an EQ effect to it-- oddly enough, not really muffling it at all, but sort of heightening the 4, 5, 6 kHz zone-- and then rolling off the top, mildly.

The precise setting of the gain has EQish consequences as well... the usable range is like from 3 on the low side to 5, and there's more clarity as the settings go higher. Hard to imagine what would call for setting the gain at 10, maybe to hear your heartbeat in a still room? The hearbeat of your next door neighbor?